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@pplsartofwar All out of order. It was LDP (1955)>Plaza Accords (1982)>bubble (1984-1989)>BoJ replaces MoF, then after all of this World Bank and the entire world invested into China. It's rise didn't start until at least the 2000s after they joined WTO.

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@GigaBasedDad Catholic specifically. He wears a Phrygian cap as well, you can also find gold triangles all over early French Revolution iconography. Most of the imagery in these games is traceable to the more esoteric elements of Catholic iconography.

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@morris_que14 It's a make up style with no correlation to ethnicity, region, or nationality. It didn't even originate in Asia. If you're going to try and diffuse the topic as being ethnicity agnostic then at least close it out. Like every e-girl has this style, it's an offshoot of 2000s scene.

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@RambleMan51 Generally if someone pointed at a model or cosplayer then used it as a general example for a person you'd tell them to stop cherrypicking. Picrel is the very same woman her job is cosplaying.

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@zhirallnn It's all the same. Everything begins and ends at familiarity and style.

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@betao_creme The woman on the left is a Mongolian born in Austria. I've heard some say she was European and it's true in terms of nationality, but not ethnicity.

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@mellifera_x3 They said this about autocorrect too and I guarantee you that she uses it. The only thing AI does is improve searching immensely, for both images and basic info. If she wants to go back to 2000s era MSN fine, but it's like going from calculator to abacus.

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@TheRabbitHole Someone should slip in US history and make it a picture of Roots.

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@epichan77 My only grievance is the over-application of cosmetics and surgery. No idea what happened in the 2000s onward, but it's like I'm looking at an entirely new species. This picture was from the 80s it was the equivalent of AKB48/Nogizaka46. It feels like I'm being gaslighted.

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@KSWarzala Manufactured dissent is a trend I've been noticing as well. Makes sense considering the global reactionary wave. In particular liking Japan always comes with a form of contrast rather than appreciating anything particular. I like Japan because it has no x.

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@lowcortisol There was a streamer called Suriyocandy, who did this pickme theatrics with the Nazi song 'Erika'. She didn't care, but when she was caught charging a dildo almost the size of a cattle prod under her bed she went full damage control. Racism is performative now.

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@lunamotoo @alicekingsleigz Welcome to Japanese modelling parsing this stuff is the visual equivalent of gaslighting. It wouldn't bother me if it wasn't for the romance blinders surrounding the country. Calling out photoshop or make up in jp modelling gets you similar responses to calling k idols plastic.

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@anime_ Yes they literally trace photographs for the backgrounds. That's not something to brag about normally you'd call that lazy.

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@AmeliaRemigrate Caucasian sure if you want to be strict about it yes the middle east counts, but you have all of Siberia, North Africa, Central Asia, and Pakistan included in that. Include India as caucasian too if you're going to be this loose with the term.

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@adonispara An interesting fact about Mishima is that he was a draft dodger with an aristocrat grandmother and top bureaucrat father. The original quote is "Ordinary life is more horrible than war" which is ironic considering he never went to war.

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@NoContextHumans Very cool. Now do freight, no one is trying to move people between cities to jobs that could have been automated via Excel spreadsheet 20 years ago. We also have planes for leisure travel and metro systems local to cities.

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@IdmVZ1JN8AadOJX You can go on IG and find an endless amount of alt girls with the 'Asian' style of make up. It's not even a recent style, picrel was pretty much any emo girl in the 2000s. e-girls later cut back on the eyeliner.

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@harukaawake I have never seen a positive comment about this ad since 2020. Both McDonald's Japan and McDonald's in the US are run by the same company. The only thing that went viral was the outrage, McDonald's did this to separate their international branding from the US politically.

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@JustAnIranianIr Correct me if I'm wrong. Shia is a form of Islam that intends on establishing the Islamic version of the comintern in the form of an international imamate. I also understand that Sunnis have a particular disdain for Shi'ites more so than any other group.

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@ApexSeeker_ Does anyone dream the same thing every night? There also is no THE American Dream because that implies a universal dream. Eventually interests conflict as we all pollute the same space. Dreams are distorted, vague, lunar visions; it's hard to make sense of them even to yourself.